Who do you like as the Seahawks’ next offensive coordinator?

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The Seahawks fired offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates after one season. Bates came to Seattle with Pete Carroll when the head coach was hired in January of last year. He’d served as Carroll’s offensive coordinator in Carroll’s final season at USC. The Seahawks’ offensive struggles this season have been well documented, but in case you want a concise synopsis, here’s the quick and dirty of it.

Jim Zorn, right, is reportedly a candidate to become the Seahawks’ next offensive coordinator. (Photo by Jeff T. Green/Getty Images)

After ESPN reported that the Seahawks had been in talks with former Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels, the St. Louis Rams officially announced they had hired McDaniels as their offensive coordinator, removing him from Seattle’s potential wish list.

The Seahawks hired Snohomish native and former Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable as their offensive line coach, hired Todd Wash as their defensive line coach, and promoted Kris Richard to secondary coach and Rocky Seto to assistant secondary coach.

Wash replaces Dan Quinn, who accepted a job as the University of Florida’s defensive coordinator earlier this month. Richard and Seto replace former defensive backs coach Jerry Gray, who accepted a job Monday as the defensive backs coach at the University of Texas.

Richard was an assistant defensive backs coach for the Seahawks this season. Seto was the Seahawks’ defensive quality control coach, and coached in some capacity at USC for 10 years prior to following Carroll to Seattle.

An ESPN report mentioned Jedd Fisch as a possible candidate to replace Bates as offensive coordinator. Fisch — the Seahawks’ quarterbacks coach this season — accepted the University of Miami’s offensive coordinator position last week, a move he likely wouldn’t have made if he knew there was a possibility of Seattle’s offensive coordinator job opening up. And ESPN’s Bruce Feldman tweeted later Tuesday that a source close to Fisch told him Fisch is “100 percent committed” to staying with Miami.

Hard to imagine him saying that if the Seahawks truly did approach him about the offensive coordinator job, which is obviously a substantial step up from a college coordinator position. And it’s not like Fisch has some longtime ties to the University of Miami — he attended the University of Florida and knows the area, but never even met Hurricanes coach Al Golden before taking the job there.

Art Valero, who coached the Seahawks offensive line this season, is still on the staff despite Cable’s hiring. Valero stepped in when Alex Gibbs retired abruptly just before the season opener. Maybe we’ll find out more about Valero’s role going forward when we meet with Carroll tomorrow morning at the VMAC.

So, to recap: Of Carroll’s 2010 staff, three coaches have left for collegiate jobs, one has been fired, and one, Valero, is still on staff but has been replaced by a new hire.

That leaves the quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator positions vacant. The latter will draw the most speculation until it’s filled, which figures to be soon considering the uncertain nature of this off season.

Which begs the question: Who do you guys want?

The obvious people’s choice seems to be Baltimore Ravens quarterbacks coach Jim Zorn, a Seahawks legend as a player who also served as the team’s quarterbacks coach from 2001-2007. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Tuesday that Zorn is a candidate for the job.

Zorn was hired as the Washington Redskins’ offensive coordinator in January of 2008, then was quickly promoted to head coach 32 days later after a bizarre search for a replacement for Joe Gibbs. Zorn was fired after leading the Redskins to a 12-20 record in two seasons. Baltimore hired him to coach quarterbacks shortly after.

Zorn would certainly be a popular choice at Seahawks headquarters. He worked in Mike Holmgren’s offensive system for seven seasons with Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, who is an unrestricted free agent. Hasselbeck has said repeatedly that he’d like to re-sign with the Seahawks, and bringing Zorn on board certainly wouldn’t hurt Hasselbeck’s desire to return.

And if the Seahawks do want Zorn, it’d be a statement about the direction they’d like their offense to take, meaning they also still envision Hasselbeck as a part of it.

One potential snag: Zorn’s ties to Holmgren make him a logical candidate to fill the Cleveland Browns OC position.

Other names being floated in various reports include former Minnesota Vikings coach Brad Childress (served under Holmgren disciple Andy Reid as OC in Philadelphia) and Vikings offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell (reportedly interviewed with Carroll for the Seahawks quarterbacks coach position on Tuesday).

Who do you guys want? Should the Seahawks jump at any chance to make a run at Zorn? If not, who do you want to see as the next offensive coordinator?